Self-awareness

Just Keep Swimming

Getting to shore, one stroke at a time

My Libido Called. I Let It Go To Voicemail

I’ll check it later.

A Day in the Life

What’s a Sweatsuit?

The foxy jogger

Who Will Show up for My 80th Birthday Tribute?

Storing up friends for the big day

Bolognese and Black Beans

Listening to your intuition

Driving while 50.

Finding grace in aging.

Party Style Twists

Last week I wore my hair down with two twists, one on each side of my middle part. Because of my cowlick, I couldn’t get the twists even, but I wore them anyway. When I was a kid we called this “party style.” I rarely wear my hair down. It makes me feel young, somehow not myself. That night I…

Freedom

Fall has come like the click of a camera. All of a sudden the leaves have changed. The air is cool and I want to eat soup. This morning I woke up well before sunrise. As I drank my coffee and stared out into my back patio, I found myself thinking back to last year at this time. In October of last year, I had just…

True Nature

This year at my family’s annual holiday party I was talking to my friend Heidi, a physical therapist/wise woman who has two teenage daughters and is herself in peri-menopause. “I’m totally in puberty,” she said. “ The difference is that now I can see it. I can see from outside looking in what is happening…

The Road Home

Last night terrible cramps wove their way into my dreams. I’m one of those annoying women who says, “I’ve never had menstrual cramps,”…